I still go slogging through sewers and water ditches. Gotta keep that immune system from getting bored and making antibodies against harmless shit like peanut butter!
"Unless you plan on maxing out AA and AF while playing on a 30 inch screen,"
Totally unnecessary with the subpixel rendering engines in most LCD TVs nowdays, considering their native resolution is FAR higher than their maximum capable resolution (that's where the subpixel rendering comes into play, for upscaling to three times the amount of pixels. A 30-inch TV would have HUGE pixels at 1920x1080 if aspect were followed.)
Umm, the PS3 has native keyboard and mouse support. I plugged in an old wireless Compaq keyboard/mouse combo and it worked flawlessly. No need to buy adapters. If the game devs didn't put in keyboard support for the PS3, that's their screwup.
Actually, the physical pixel count on my 32" LCD runs almost that high. Each "pixel" under a microscope at 1080p is actually 9 groupings of three primary color sub-pixels.
So, instead of being 1080p, I could see a potential firmware hack allowing even higher resolutions. Disable subpixel rendering on the screen and just do raw control of each pixel. Obviously the hardware capability is already present in the LCD.
The 360 and PS3 are practically identical. Both use IBM Power-PC based main cores and a bunch of side processing units. the 360's total performance capability is HALF that of the PS3 (360 does 1TFLOP PS3 can do 2TFLOP) the PS3 also has a superior graphics hardware set. Comparing GTAIV on the 360 vs the PS3, the 360 looks like it's running in 16-bit color depth, shadows are absolutely horrible, and the draw distance isn't even on par with the PS3.
Sorry, speaking from an 'inside' point of view, you're dead wrong. For one, the 360 only has 10MB of dedicated VRAM. the PS3 has 256MB of GDDR3 for their GPU, and the 256MB of XDR DESTROYS the 512MB of GDDR3 that the 360 uses for system memory (For one GDDR3 isn't meant to be used as main system memory, XDR is.)
"Then we have this other stuff called "paint" which can be put on top of pre-existing walls with a "brush" or "roller" to cover what cannot be "cleaned."
Yea, and the mold that grows behind it justs makes stuff worse.
Strip the paint, reapply. Anything else is lazy and hazardous.
But don't forget that practically any HP compared to a Mac of similar price point will pretty uch school the mac. my one-grand HP DV9825 blows pretty much anything the Mac has to offer out of the way, simply by default included features. In such a small space, HP packs in an expansion slot, 4 video out options, 4 USB, multimedia card reader, UPGRADABLE GRAPHICS CARD...
The list goes on. Sometimes there's a trade-off to having so much hardware packed into a small form factor. I always keep the battery out of my notebook after fully charging. Never does it give me a problem.
Which is why they're finally on Intel hardware after so many years....
"and is naturally going to run into more frequent hardware failures as a result."
Maybe it's the cheap labor they have in Guadalajara where the mobos were manufactured.
"Things like mandatory cameras, backlit keyboards, ambient light sensors, 11N, drop-head-parking, DVI, etc. I suppose in that respect a lot of Apple buyers are comparable to other brands' "early adopters", and the tradeoffs that brings."
Except some of that's been in non-Apple systems for many years prior. Toughbook with the drop head parking. Backlit keyboards are nothing new, not for ten years easily, but maybe LED ones in laptops, before led backlighting some laptops used fiber optic lighting. DVI in a proprietary connector, yes, but that still doesn't come close to the four output options on my HP Laptop (Component, s-video, VGA, HDMI.)
* After four months:
- Maximum battery capacity lowered to less than half.
tells me that you leave your battery constantly plugged into the laptop, even when fully charged. Your battery has heat damage. Batteries don't like heat over 110F, why can't people remember this simple little thing?
Of course it doesn't help HP has the battery right next to the hottest spot in the damned system. Most other manufacturers keep the battery FAR away from the CPU/GPU area for that exact reason.
"My current HP had its battery replaced twice because it had died within 3 months of the battery coming out of the box(both times)"
Let me guess, you leave a fully charged battery plugged into the laptop while the laptop is running constantly on AC power, don't you?
Because those batteries can't stand heat. Fully charged, a brand new battery sitting in an often-used laptop constantly running on AC power will get FUCKED after a couple of months. First time you'll unplug it, suddenly you've got 20, maybe 30 minutes of battery life at idle. The heat from the computer has screwed your battery.
I guess that PSA about three years ago never made it out to the public ears, after all.
Speaking as a former HP lead repair tech, the hardware is pretty much identical. Board configurations might be different, but just by a little bit, depending on whether it's intel or amd based. They all use the same Realtek audio, altec lansing speakers, most (business and consumer class) come with discrete graphics, which means you can upgrade that, they all use Intel wireless, the ethernet depends on intel or amd base again.
The motherboard failures were mostly caused by faulty die packaging around the GPU - nVidia's issue, not HPs.
I will say consumer HP laptops use an inferior plastic to the commercial line. My case near the cpu/hdd/power light is busted up just from opening the clamshell.
Please bear in mind that most of these 'malfunctions' are actually engineering recalls for things like defective hinges or the LCD latch not operating properly. Most of the hardware inside an HP is pretty solid for the most part. Just speaking as a former insider.
Last MAJOR mass failure from HP was due to nVidia's faulty die packaging combined with cheap thermal modules failing. Instant GPU meltdown.
Why surprised about Toshiba? I think ol Zoomshorts on this site still has a 75MHz Toshiba Satellite C200, still perfectly functional. I've got a Toshiba laptop with a bad inverter but otherwise the entire laptop runs fine and I just run it hooked to a CRT, no LCD attached.
Toshiba units are pretty good. Their repair line was certainly much smaller than HPs.
Army Engineers are paid by the army, not by the Louisiana state."
Learn about how our government works before talking, eh? Congress approves funding for all massive public works projects, like levees, dams, lake dredging, park creation, etc.
No money from Congress to repair/reinforce the levee, levee goes to shit. For four decades ACE has said "We need to repair and reinforce x/y/z or else shit goes down." Congress is too busy listening to the corporations and their wallets.
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Some of us were lucky and got the genetics to have muscles without needing to work out beyond typing at a keyboard and lifting heavy CRTs.
I'd be willing to bet there's a true peanut allergy and then a false one that seems to be an allergy but in fact is a deadly chain-reaction.
Nope, my Samsung is an 8-bit panel. I'm thinking about getting a 10-bit panel soon.
No dithering here, sorry.
We were tempered in raw shit! Damn right!
I still go slogging through sewers and water ditches. Gotta keep that immune system from getting bored and making antibodies against harmless shit like peanut butter!
"Unless you plan on maxing out AA and AF while playing on a 30 inch screen,"
Totally unnecessary with the subpixel rendering engines in most LCD TVs nowdays, considering their native resolution is FAR higher than their maximum capable resolution (that's where the subpixel rendering comes into play, for upscaling to three times the amount of pixels. A 30-inch TV would have HUGE pixels at 1920x1080 if aspect were followed.)
"How long before we saturate the PCI-E bus and need something faster?"
Considering Crysis can't fully tax the bandwidth of an AGP 8x slot, probably not for a good long while.
ATi's 4850 AGP flavor rocks Crysis no problem. At that point, it's the CPU/Memory that's the bottleneck.
Umm, the PS3 has native keyboard and mouse support. I plugged in an old wireless Compaq keyboard/mouse combo and it worked flawlessly. No need to buy adapters. If the game devs didn't put in keyboard support for the PS3, that's their screwup.
Actually, the physical pixel count on my 32" LCD runs almost that high. Each "pixel" under a microscope at 1080p is actually 9 groupings of three primary color sub-pixels.
So, instead of being 1080p, I could see a potential firmware hack allowing even higher resolutions. Disable subpixel rendering on the screen and just do raw control of each pixel. Obviously the hardware capability is already present in the LCD.
Trust me, I hack both systems.
The 360 and PS3 are practically identical. Both use IBM Power-PC based main cores and a bunch of side processing units. the 360's total performance capability is HALF that of the PS3 (360 does 1TFLOP PS3 can do 2TFLOP) the PS3 also has a superior graphics hardware set. Comparing GTAIV on the 360 vs the PS3, the 360 looks like it's running in 16-bit color depth, shadows are absolutely horrible, and the draw distance isn't even on par with the PS3.
Sorry, speaking from an 'inside' point of view, you're dead wrong. For one, the 360 only has 10MB of dedicated VRAM. the PS3 has 256MB of GDDR3 for their GPU, and the 256MB of XDR DESTROYS the 512MB of GDDR3 that the 360 uses for system memory (For one GDDR3 isn't meant to be used as main system memory, XDR is.)
http://www.wikixbox360.com/page/Detailed+Xbox+360+System+Specs
http://playstation.about.com/od/ps3/a/PS3SpecsDetails_3.htm
PS3 stomps the 360. The 360 is by far inferior, it's locked down, and it burns itself out more often than not.
Oh, and I do run Linux on my PS3.
"Flash back to the year 2000. Try to find me a $200 card back then that could do the same."
Do you remember 3Dfx? Yes, for a mere 200 bucks you could run any game at full resolution, at a solid sustained 45+ FPS.
And that was back in the 90s.
I smell a n00b.
A smell is caused by particulate matter hitting your olfactory senses.
smelling smoke = breathing some trace of smoke.
HP Has Tier-X for bio-hazardous units. Destroy and ship out a new laptop ASAP.
If Apple doesn't have this they're absolute fools.
"Then we have this other stuff called "paint" which can be put on top of pre-existing walls with a "brush" or "roller" to cover what cannot be "cleaned."
Yea, and the mold that grows behind it justs makes stuff worse.
Strip the paint, reapply. Anything else is lazy and hazardous.
Reviews say no fans. Yes hinges. Got a switch to turn wireless on/off?
But don't forget that practically any HP compared to a Mac of similar price point will pretty uch school the mac. my one-grand HP DV9825 blows pretty much anything the Mac has to offer out of the way, simply by default included features. In such a small space, HP packs in an expansion slot, 4 video out options, 4 USB, multimedia card reader, UPGRADABLE GRAPHICS CARD...
The list goes on. Sometimes there's a trade-off to having so much hardware packed into a small form factor. I always keep the battery out of my notebook after fully charging. Never does it give me a problem.
Hinges? Fan?
"Apple tends to hang more on the bleeding edge,"
Which is why they're finally on Intel hardware after so many years....
"and is naturally going to run into more frequent hardware failures as a result."
Maybe it's the cheap labor they have in Guadalajara where the mobos were manufactured.
"Things like mandatory cameras, backlit keyboards, ambient light sensors, 11N, drop-head-parking, DVI, etc. I suppose in that respect a lot of Apple buyers are comparable to other brands' "early adopters", and the tradeoffs that brings."
Except some of that's been in non-Apple systems for many years prior. Toughbook with the drop head parking. Backlit keyboards are nothing new, not for ten years easily, but maybe LED ones in laptops, before led backlighting some laptops used fiber optic lighting. DVI in a proprietary connector, yes, but that still doesn't come close to the four output options on my HP Laptop (Component, s-video, VGA, HDMI.)
Well, that's all well and good but...
* After four months:
- Maximum battery capacity lowered to less than half.
tells me that you leave your battery constantly plugged into the laptop, even when fully charged. Your battery has heat damage. Batteries don't like heat over 110F, why can't people remember this simple little thing?
Of course it doesn't help HP has the battery right next to the hottest spot in the damned system. Most other manufacturers keep the battery FAR away from the CPU/GPU area for that exact reason.
"My current HP had its battery replaced twice because it had died within 3 months of the battery coming out of the box(both times)"
Let me guess, you leave a fully charged battery plugged into the laptop while the laptop is running constantly on AC power, don't you?
Because those batteries can't stand heat. Fully charged, a brand new battery sitting in an often-used laptop constantly running on AC power will get FUCKED after a couple of months. First time you'll unplug it, suddenly you've got 20, maybe 30 minutes of battery life at idle. The heat from the computer has screwed your battery.
I guess that PSA about three years ago never made it out to the public ears, after all.
Speaking as a former HP lead repair tech, the hardware is pretty much identical. Board configurations might be different, but just by a little bit, depending on whether it's intel or amd based. They all use the same Realtek audio, altec lansing speakers, most (business and consumer class) come with discrete graphics, which means you can upgrade that, they all use Intel wireless, the ethernet depends on intel or amd base again.
The motherboard failures were mostly caused by faulty die packaging around the GPU - nVidia's issue, not HPs.
I will say consumer HP laptops use an inferior plastic to the commercial line. My case near the cpu/hdd/power light is busted up just from opening the clamshell.
Please bear in mind that most of these 'malfunctions' are actually engineering recalls for things like defective hinges or the LCD latch not operating properly. Most of the hardware inside an HP is pretty solid for the most part. Just speaking as a former insider.
Last MAJOR mass failure from HP was due to nVidia's faulty die packaging combined with cheap thermal modules failing. Instant GPU meltdown.
"Apple computers seem to have a longer life span."
Until you take into account their support cycle, where they pretty much stop support for anything older than 3 years.
Why surprised about Toshiba? I think ol Zoomshorts on this site still has a 75MHz Toshiba Satellite C200, still perfectly functional. I've got a Toshiba laptop with a bad inverter but otherwise the entire laptop runs fine and I just run it hooked to a CRT, no LCD attached.
Toshiba units are pretty good. Their repair line was certainly much smaller than HPs.
Dude, I can fit my 17" HP in the back pocket of my JNCOs. Shit I can stuff a full-sized Betamax player in there if I took my huge chain wallet out.
Does anybody besides me remember the 90s?
"Why all that straw?
Army Engineers are paid by the army, not by the Louisiana state."
Learn about how our government works before talking, eh? Congress approves funding for all massive public works projects, like levees, dams, lake dredging, park creation, etc.
No money from Congress to repair/reinforce the levee, levee goes to shit. For four decades ACE has said "We need to repair and reinforce x/y/z or else shit goes down." Congress is too busy listening to the corporations and their wallets.